| How do you think the US
government's actions concerning piracy will change over
the next year? |
| Well it'll
squeeze out the weak, and the ones who were planning to
retire. For now, it won't effect anyone until the FBI
puts it in full force. When people see thier friends
lying in jail, doing hard time, THEN it will seriously
tear apart the net scene. Will it stop the people who
have cd burners and make copies for thier friends? Not a
chance. |
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| Who will be the first to be
convicted under the new laws and how will this group of
people react? |
| Well sites
will be the first to disappear, then major suppliers
& group leaders will be the first to be questioned,
probably arrested. The thing is, the main way the feds
get info is by publicity, and maybe by getting on the
sites. But they can't get inside the groups and be a part
of it. That's entrapment. They are breaking the law to be
with us. After talking to people effected by CyberStrike,
the questions the feds came up with were from reading
.nfo files, they were clueless. |
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| What effect will these
convictions have on the rest of the scene? |
| When someone
gets convicted, then there are going to be serious
repracussions. The people who are apart of it will drop
like flies. But what I don't understand is why go after
us? We do it for fun, we do it to try out the software. I
found it funny with Quake 2, people without cd-roms were
able to play the game because of the scene. And you know
what, people went out and bought cdroms & quake 2 cuz
they played it and said, "This is really cool." |
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| How is the warez scene
going to be different a year from now because of the NET
act? |
| You just
can't predict the future. The unexpected always happens,
and will happen. |
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| Will there be any positive
effects on the scene? |
Ha, that's
funny!
I can't see anything positive coming out of this. Am I
dreading doomsday? No. But this isn't positive at all..
It's more like the scene get shocked by a tazer gun. |
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| How will the NET act effect
you personally? |
| For now, it
doesn't faze me.. but my attitude might change when it
does, or if it slaps me in the face |
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| What advice would you give
to people in the warez scene about the NET act? |
| Don't let it
worry you, for now. The small potatoes who play the games
and don't contribute back (like most of the people in the
#warezX channels) won't be hurt at all. It's the people
who put in the effort to provide the scene with free
software who will be hurt, eventually. |